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Here in Maryland the rain has melted one day into the next, each equally gray and damp. At such times it's easy to sense the importance of one's environmental palette. A recent Dutch study found that the closer you live to green space, the better your overall health. People who live within 1 kilo...

On our ever-more-populous planet, there may be less elbow room to go around. It's not just any sort of space that contributes to human wellbeing. Green space, in particular, has been found to reduce mental fatigue and aggression, even in such small doses as a few trees and bushes outside an apart...

I've always thought there was nothing sadder than a strip mall. In the Southeastern United States where I grew up, the steadily encroaching tide of flat generic architecture has washed over pristine forests...and in many cases, washed back with the changing population, leaving abandoned retail hu...